The third floor of the tower is the former site of the Sixth Noble College.
Just as Mingche said to Baiwu, as long as you have money, you can let your children learn many courses before the High Tower era.
In such an apocalypse, music, art, and photography are no longer necessities.
But the third floor is different.
The third layer does not feel the apocalyptic atmosphere at all. People still chase stars, entertain, work, study, indulge, and degenerate.
Because they don’t worry about the pressure of survival at all. At most, they worry about working too much overtime and affecting their quality of life.
In the first few decades of the Tower Era, people still had a strong sense of crisis, but later on, that sense of crisis gradually faded. Anyway, there were the Guardian Army and the Survey Army, and anyway, there was the Tower.
The Sixth Noble Academy never lacks students every year, because this is the place to learn various upper-class skills.
So after a few years, the school had the money to build a new campus, but the old campus, which had not yet been dealt with, became a deserted place.
Especially since two students died here, there are rumors that this place is haunted, which makes it even more deserted.
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In the storage room in the corner of the gymnasium of the Sixth Noble Academy, Yan Jiu was painting quietly.
Candles were lit in the room, and dusty sports equipment and various ball props were placed around it.
There is a basketball court outside the house, but she doesn't like places that are too empty.
She actually likes small and enclosed places, so when she was kidnapped, she took the initiative to ask to be locked up in a small dark room.
This surprised the kidnapper wearing a smiling mask.
Or rather, this girl surprised him from beginning to end.
He likes children with twisted personalities. In his opinion, such children have great potential to become evil.
Not long ago, he happened to lose such a child. Fortunately, places like the tower always create some unfortunate lives.
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"According to the development of the following story, I should have two endings. I will continue to be with you, listen to your stories about the scandals of the upper class, and then one day, you will take me away from here."
"Or... you'll die here, and I'll end up in the asylum again."
In the storage room, Yan Jiu closed his paintbrush and looked at the masked man in the shadows.
"Which ending do you prefer?" asked the masked man.
"If it was two hours ago, I would have liked your ending better, but now I have changed my mind. I don't want to leave here."
"Oh? Why do you want to go back to those lunatics? I should have told you that it's a cage, and those who are locked up there are abandoned people that no one cares about."
The masked man's eyes fell on Yan Jiu's painting.
In a very short period of time, she drew a total of seven paintings. The first painting was of a woman with a neurotic look sitting on an airplane.
The second painting is of a strange human with eyes on his arms and horns on his key points.
The third painting shows a tall demon with bone wings on his back, swimming against the tide of evil.
In the fourth painting, the evil creature with a severed arm uses his other arm to smash the cabin of the plane into pieces.
In the fifth painting, a man and a woman are falling in a blood-red sky. In the woman's hand, she is holding half a heart.
The sixth painting is a crimson sea of clouds. Above the sea of clouds, a nervous woman puts her hands together, welcoming the endless fall.
The seventh painting shows a dwarf and a big man running at a fast pace.
Yan Jiu paints very quickly, but his painting skills are extremely solid.
"I have someone I like now. It's different from what you said. There are people in this world who love me. I'm not a discarded child. There are people who would even give up their lives for me. So I don't want to do evil anymore."
Yan Jiu had a blank look on his face.
Bai Wu has the same expression most of the time, but he doesn't look as dull as Yan Jiu.
The relationship between the masked man and Yan Jiu is more like that of a teacher and a student rather than a kidnapper and a hostage.
He told Yan Jiu a lot of benefits of becoming an evil person.
For example, absolute freedom and endless life. Especially when it comes to Yan Jiu's emotional incompleteness, once such a person becomes evil, he will often evolve beyond his level.
In the world outside the tower, he will take her to a special area where all the evil ones have wisdom and rationality, and they will like her unconditionally.
Human beings are just living in this tower and deceiving themselves. This race is slowly decaying.
Only by becoming evil can you welcome the vast world.
Of course, simply not resisting becoming evil is only the first step. The most important thing is to make this girl hate the tower.
Only enough negative emotions can turn it into evil. So these days, he has been instilling in the girl all kinds of ugliness of human beings, letting her understand all kinds of tragedies committed by humans.
Considering his unfortunate childhood, Yan Jiu did have the idea of no longer wanting to be a human being, and even hated this world.
But now everything has changed.
"Please go. I will wait for him to rescue me."
"Is this the person in your painting? Is he coming to save you?"
The masked man looked at the last painting. The blue Survey Corps combat uniform, the height difference that could be felt even on the drawing paper, and that face, all looked familiar to him.
"Yes, they are on their way."
The masked man looked at Yan Jiu with a blank expression, then stretched the corners of his mouth with the index fingers of both hands, forcing a smile.
The little girl couldn't even express the joy of being liked.
What a good seedling, naturally suited for doing evil.
Just looking at the person he had been eyeing recently in the last painting, he also felt that he might have to say goodbye to this little girl.
"No one will love you. Your identity is too special. If they save you, you will have to go back to the asylum and never come out again. Even so, do you still choose to go back?"
Yan Jiu lowered his head.
She was certainly smart to leave such a clue for Bai Wu, and she was also weighing the pros and cons.
But this process didn't last too long. Someone's words seemed to still echo in my ears: "I must go save her."
She raised her head and said seriously:
"I don't want to be evil."
"What if the people who come can't save you?"
"I don't want to be evil, please let me go."
The masked man sighed, nodded and said:
"Since you don't want to, I can only respect your choice, but one day you will understand that this tower is not worth protecting."
The mask could have naturally taken Yan Jiu away by force long ago. With Yan Jiu's physique, he would soon become an evil being outside the tower.
But the masked man never did so.
He never minds using deception, just like Evil is free and the vast world outside the tower belongs to Evil.
This statement is of course a lie, because evil cannot leave a fixed area.
But as long as these lies can make him willingly become evil, he can tell them without any guilt.
"You should leave now. They will be here soon. They are very powerful and you can't beat them."
The masked man remained unmoved. He certainly knew how powerful the dwarf in the last painting was.
This was different from the meeting he had planned. He had originally thought that the meeting would be outside the tower.
He laughed strangely:
"This body is indeed no match for him, but it would be a shame to waste the opportunity to fight him in advance."